Victory (also published as Victory: An Island Tale) is a psychological novel by Joseph Conrad first published in 1915,through which Conrad achieved "e;popular successThe novel's "e;most striking formal characteristic is its shifting narrative and temporal perspectivewith the first section from the viewpoint of a sailor, the second from omniscient perspective of Axel Heyst, the third from an interior perspective from Heyst, and the final section has an omniscient narrator.It has been adapted into film a number of times.